RESTRICTION, PRAGMATIC LIBERALISATION, MODERNISATION: GERMANY’S MULTIFACETED RESPONSE TO THE “REFUGEE CRISIS”
RESTRICTION, PRAGMATIC LIBERALISATION, MODERNISATION: GERMANY’S MULTIFACETED RESPONSE TO THE “REFUGEE CRISIS”

Author(s): Axel Kreienbrink
Subject(s): Politics, Geography, Regional studies, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Public Administration, Welfare systems, Present Times (2010 - today), Migration Studies, Socio-Economic Research, EU-Legislation
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: migration; refugee crisis; Germany; modernisation; restriction; pragmatic liberalisation;
Summary/Abstract: In 2015 and 2016, Germany faced an influx of asylum seekers on an unprecedented scale. How did the country react to this so-called “refugee crisis”? The response was a major effort at all levels of the federal state: the federal level, the Länder, the local authorities, but also civil society, welfare associations and NGOs. There have been countless measures in the most diverse fields of action (Grote, 2018). This article will specifically deal with the question of how and which legislative and administrative changes were put in place at the federal level in order to better manage the changing influx.

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